User talk:Philtweir

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Nomination of Otago University Debating Society for deletion
The article Otago University Debating Society is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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10th anniversary
How did the meetup go at Tonic? Did anyone turn up?- gadfium 19:17, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, have been rather remiss in watching changes in the last week. Sadly not, just myself, the barman and another guy passing through, though I'd suspected as much in advance. Three of us had a good evening, so certainly not a wasted trip. If nothing else, at least we can say there was a (very small) Dunedin celebration! Do you know whether any other events came off? Philtweir (talk) 00:54, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Nothing I know of.- gadfium 04:14, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Knox College, Otago
checked your revision on Knox College, Otago. I like what you did there and just wanted to say nice work. --ProfPolySci45 (talk) 23:52, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you, some of it is a little out of date now but as the college has recently entered into controversy, I'd rather keep a little distance, despite having left. On the bright side, there'll be plenty of newspaper material for someone to cite when it settles down! Philtweir (talk) 17:58, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay
Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics.  Schwede 66  09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)